Install MySQL on Ubuntu without a password prompt

Question

How do I write a script to install MySQL server on Ubuntu?

sudo apt-get install mysql will install, but it will also ask for a password to be entered in

Answer 1

Use:

sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y mysql-server

sudo mysql -h127.0.0.1 -P3306 -uroot -e"UPDATE mysql.user SET password = PASSWORD('yourpassword') WHERE user = 'root'"